#operate

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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In today's world, it is no longer unimaginable to think that business can operate - and even thrive - in an environmentally-friendly manner. ↗

— Olympia Snowe

#business #even #longer #manner #operate

People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#calculator #depth #emotional #equally #how

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

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Virtually everywhere in the world, people still wake up and want their country to be more like the United States than any other nation. We are the envy of the world because of what we stand for and how our democratic process, flawed as it may often seem to be, operates. We should take pride in that. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

#because #country #democratic #democratic process #envy

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#best #does #generally #him #indignation

Well we had nine top forensic pathologists from across the country, who operated as a panel, who looked at all the ballistic evidence and they came out saying that those bullets did exactly what the Warren Commission said they did. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#ballistic #bullets #came #commission #country

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority. ↗

— John Sununu

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I pretty much operate on adrenaline and ignorance. ↗

— Johnny Knoxville

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